Urban Short Stories

Miranda and Charlie Clark are the power couple in charge of their own advertising firm. Charlie is the handsome head designer working under his beautiful, tough as nails wife Miranda who everyone is afraid of displeasing. What everyone in the office doesn't know is just how much the two of them get off on their power play dynamic. While Miranda is the ice queen boss of the office, Charlie is the master in the sheets and punishes his wife for her vile, berating abuses during the work hours. When Miranda takes a step too far with new employee Kyle, Charlie comes up with a new idea to both ...

I Shouldn’t Have Survived A Modern Horror Anthology They knocked. I answered. They watched. I waved. They waited… and I stayed. Ten chilling survivor stories. Ten doors you should never open. In this razor-sharp anthology of modern horror, victims recount the unexplainable—and barely escape. Each story is told in haunting first-person detail, plunging you into a world where terror hides in the ordinary: an unlocked apartment, a mirror that fogs from the wrong side, a knock that keeps perfect time, or a window that shouldn’t be there. From forgotten rooms to cursed signals, parasitic...

In The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and best-selling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters - many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do.

The Order of the Three Spears. Founded at the turn of the ninth century by the Lotus-Born Second Buddha and inspired by the most powerful immortal warrior who ever lived, this secret Buddhist society has kept the existence of immortals hidden from ordinary humans and maintained peace between the races for twelve hundred years.

In this fifth and final edition of Swagger So Right the secrets get revealed. Melanie and Xavier overcome their difficulties to try and save their relationship. Secret after secret gets revealed causing life to change drastically for both of them. But are they good or bad changes? Will they make it work for them or will things end as quickly as they began? Dive into the final installment of the series to see how Melanie and Xaviers life unfolds.

So many things have made Melanie think that her man has been cheating on her. But time and time again she is proven wrong. After a confrontation with a mystery woman Melanie has found herself questioning her man yet again. This time she gets an immediate answer to her questions. But is that enough to get things back on track? Just as Melanie thinks she has everything figured out some devastating news lands in her lap. Does she have it in her to fight for the love of her life? Or will this be the end of Melanie and Xavier? Xavier has been fighting for Melanie's love since he laid eyes on her...

For this FBI Special Agent, the world is about to get a lot stranger and more interesting. When a routine visit to the morgue triggers an explosion, Agent Nick Reynolds thinks his most serious concern is whether rescue workers will dig them out in time for him to attend a birthday party. But that was before he discovers his colleague is a hungry vampire - a time bomb of another sort. "The Collapse" is a short story which can be enjoyed on its own. It takes place after the events of The Fall of Witchcraft, the third book of the North American Vampire Secret Agency series.

As a young reporter, Arthur Crane exposed the secrets behind the Orchid Killer, a cult murderer from the late '60s whose crimes blackened the end of the Summer of Love. Half a century later, Arthur wakes to find an orchid resting on his pillow, a symbol of death from a killer connected to his estranged younger brother, Christian. To discover the horrifying truth, Arthur will risk all - even his very soul - for Christian may not be the brother that Arthur remembers....

UN forces have retreated to a moon base in the aftermath of early Soviet victories in a nuclear conflict. In response, the UN forces developed special robots, called "Claws", which feature spinning blades and rudimentary artificial intelligence. Six years later, the Soviet leadership asks for negotiations to end the war. A UN officer travels back to earth to discover that not only have the Claws learned to replicate themselves, they have also created a much deadlier cyborg that threatens humanity itself.

Inequality. Influence. Fraud. Sabotage. These are the themes of great fiction and our modern economy. In this collection of short stories by some of today’s most scintillating writers, the rich get poorer and the poor get richer. Yeah, right! From the heartbreaking to the hilarious, here are eight instantly classic battles over currency, class, privilege - and social distance.

In number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris’s "Dahlia Underground,” venerable vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers survives an attack by an anti-vampire terrorist group, only to show them they tried to blow up the wrong bloodsucker. Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a ghost assigned to assist humans in trouble, steps into the middle of a marital dispute with surprising twists in Carolyn Hart’s “Riding High”....

A collection of ten mystery stories set in Panama and the Middle East, which tell stories of the lives of characters inspired by the idiosyncrasies of our peoples. A work written by three novel storytellers who begin their careers with amazing stories that will leave us in suspense with descriptions of supernatural facts that will also face our less explored fears. Stories for young people and adults that will penetrate inside the audience of readers who love short stories

One morning can change everything. Five mornings can change a life. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. Allies. Alex McCann and Teodora "Ted" Vasquez never had a simple relationship. But you couldn't call it a boring one, either. Five mornings in their past shape who they will become to each other. To their families. And to the mysterious town they call home.

One drunken night, Bobby confessed that he fantasized about having a threesome and watching his wife being taken by another man…and his wife, Crista, said she shared the same fantasy. But she keeps putting him off when he suggests making the fantasy a reality -- she didn't think Bobby actually meant it... One date night, Bobby dares Crista to choose a man. When she choose a handsome black stud at the bar, they all return to a hotel room and have a wild night! Crista submits to each man, separately and at the same time, and is thoroughly used...and she loves it. It's a date night none of ...

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Washington Irving.

From a young age Brailynn had to face and go through so many trials. Trials you wouldn’t have believed, someone her age would be able to conquered, survived, and still remained a bit sane. The living proof of it all were her healing scars from her past. Each scar reminding her of what she had survived, and why she should remain living. Everyone has a story to tell when it comes to every scab or open wound on or inside their body. They either got it from playing too hard, running too fast, or in Brailynn’s case being abused. She tried to seem as normal as possible without drawing any ...

Texas Short Stories Falling for Love by Rothya James Brody Carlisle by Thomas Marshall It's A Long Way From Amphioxus by Raymond Walter Seibert The Lynch Mob by JE Warr Knucklehead, Just a Chuckle JE Warr Texas Border Land by Lee Hardesty The Long Night by Derek Day Knucklehead, Just a Chuckle by JE Warr

Volume two. Four more stories: the mind of a mind reader, babysitting the supernatural, packing up, and what's it like to be a queen.

These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even a nuclear Armageddon, which serve as comic foils for Lain's everyman characters. Here is an America where packets of Sea Monkeys arrive in the mail containing secret messages, and the girl next door can breathe underwater. With Last Week's Apocalypse, Douglas Lain arrives with a punch line and a warning.